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2021-06-15 10:34 #

Email is not a hard problem. This is a more than fifty-year-old tool.
Chat is not hard either. This is a more than forty-year-old tool. — Some random sketchy thoughts on Unix, web-apps and workflow

2021-06-15 10:26 #

Trying out mpv as an alterntive to cmus for isolated playlists. Looks really good!

2021-06-15 09:06 #
2021-06-14 21:14 #
2021-06-14 21:04 #

It’s been hot today! Meanwhile, plants keep being happy…

2021-06-14 13:24 #
2021-06-14 11:39 #

Some enlightening posts on the Freenode thing, as viewed from my RSS reader: the end of freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Leaving Freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Final Chapter.

2021-06-13 19:57 #

I could say that Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Google helped ruin the internet, but really it was that everyone started using it. The internet used to be a haven for nerds, geeks, artists, and bohemian misfits until the cool kids crashed it. Now the internet is dull and stale and overly commercialized. — I miss the old internet

2021-06-11 21:06 #

So true.

This blog serves as my way to give back to all of the people who taught me something over my career. It all started in 2007 when I needed a way to keep track of all the information I learned during my daily work as a systems administrator. — https://major.io/

2021-06-10 14:45 #

So what does it mean to always be quitting? It means “making yourself replaceable”; “deprecating yourself”; “automating yourself out of your job”. — Always be quitting